Dejin
5301
Did they rename the M26 Pershing from Pershing to M26 in the in battle indicators, or am I misremembering. I could have sworn they were labelled as Pershings just like the Pattons are still labelled as Pattons. Just what we need is another “letter” followed by “digits” name just like all the others.
I think they did. I don’t care which they use but consistency would be nice.
pyrhic
5303
Ya, i think they did that with a bunch of the american tanks…
The new T110 is a killing machine, we’ve been running two of them platooned with a Maus and I think we win 5 out of 6 games. The very first match I nabbed a Mastery: Ace Tanker in it too, though everyone seems agreed that the new Mastery Medals are pointless. The gun goes right through front turret armor on the E100 and Maus with enough frontal armor to occasionally bounce rounds, and no one seems to know about the commander’s hatch weakness yet.
We’re hoping to test drive a few of them in Clan Wars this weekend to get a feel for how they handle with gold rounds in the air.
Dejin
5305
I like the mastery medals, they give you something to shoot for on the individual tanks. Maybe at some point you’ve got them all awarded and they don’t matter anymore, but for now, they do give me a reason to go back play some older tanks and see what kind of performance I can get on them. I got a Class I on my Pershing, other than that I’ve got a few Class IIIs which should be quite easy to get.
Question, I’m sure I should know the answer to this, but is there an XP penalty for getting killed?
Well, you get more xp for surviving it seems, so I suppose that’s a penalty for dying. At least that’s how it seems to work. Certainly there’s a credit penalty (repairs) for dying…
schurem
5307
Yes there is. Especially to the crew xp. afaik they hardly grow at all if the tank got killed.
Dejin
5308
Hmm, I wonder how many skills I would have if I played differently. I almost always get killed. Survival rate 22% :-P
mk56
5309
Dejin
5310
On a major winning streak - 27 wins, 7 losses, 1 tie in the past 24-hours. Have to remember this next time I go on a big losing streak. In fact the past two times I’ve gone on in the past week, I’ve had more losses than wins, so I guess it all evens out.
I do miss my 100% repair crew. I tossed on a Repair Toolbox, but I think it’s still a bit slower than it was before (currently I have 3 crew members at 100%, plus the toolbox). I am also curious as to how my lack of camo is hurting me (used to have 100% camo on all crew members plus a camo net, which I swapped out for the toolbox).
Dying hurts your XP? I’m boned. My survival rate is about 17%.
The mastery medals might be pointless but I was happy to pick up an ace tanker for my IS7.
Also, are those screenies from an April 1st page? I can’t find them anywhere.
Those I saw on the World of Tanks Facebook page.
Had a 7-kill game as a KV for ~1100 xp and wasn’t enough to get the ace tanker badge. I wonder if I’ll ever get one. At the very end of the game there were two arties left and it’s me and a T-38-85. We go to cap their flag when ours starts ticking down. We immediately head back. 95% and the T-38-85 lights up the Bison capping the flag. I stop, line up my shot, and pop him at 100%. “I guess I should have noticed when my gunner died,” says the T-38-85. There’s only 3 minutes left, but I find the other arty and pop him. Pretty exciting game.
mk56
5315
I’m sure you will get ace badge eventually. I got it on my Lowe with a 6 kill game for around 2100 xp, which is one of my best games, but really was more of a “right place at the right time” kind of thing rather than amazing skills. It would be interesting to see exactly where the plateaus are for the various badges for each tank.
Dejin
5316
Well, it could be a long time before I get the Pershing one. I just had what according to the Service Record was my best game in terms of XP earned. 23 hits (out of 26 shots) maybe 3-4 on a Tiger I, the rest were mostly on a E-74 and a T34, along with a few on a Type 59. 1,756xp and 50,000 credits, no go on the Ace Tanker badge.
Apparently I do have some higher XP games on some of my other tanks, but that’s the highest I’ve had on the Pershing in 572 matches.
mk56
5317
Wow that is a ton of hits and I’m surprised you didn’t go over 2k xp on that one. I’ll take a guess and say that the 2k amount is about what someone needs to get the Ace badge, at tier 8 anyway.
Dejin
5318
The best part was they were focusing on the heavies in front of them, so I got to plaster them from the side. It does take a heck of a lot of hits with my 90mm to bring down an E-75’s health appreciably though.
RichVR
5319
So far Mastery Badge 2 on my Marder and Mastery Badge 3 on my PZII.
pyrhic
5320
Hang on while i flex my epeen
